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| Four militants killed in raid on Somali govt site, attack over | | | A spokesman for al Shabaab, which wants to topple a Western-backed government in Mogadishu, said the group's fighters had killed more than 10 intelligence officials. In the past, al Shabaab has exaggerated the number of government members it has killed, while officials have played down losses. As you can see, these are the dead bodies of the four al Shabaab men who attacked this building," Mohamed Yusuf, internal security ministry spokesman, told reporters at the scene. |
| Charleston mourns, begins healing after church massacre | |  By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Mourners were expected to flock to the Emanuel African Methodist Church in the historic U.S. city of Charleston as it reopens for worship on Sunday, days after a gunman shot nine black church members to death during a Bible study group. Arriving from around the United States on Saturday to pay respects to those killed, they created makeshift memorials as a small step toward healing from the latest U.S. mass shooting, which has again trained a spotlight on the nation's pervasive and divisive issues of race relations and gun crime. Authorities say he spent an hour in an evening Bible study group at the church, nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" for its key role in African-American history, before opening fire on Wednesday night.
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| Insight - Kenya wages war on smugglers who fund Somali militants | | | By Drazen Jorgic DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) - When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya. The arrests, coming weeks after four al Shabaab gunmen massacred 148 people at nearby Garissa university, were part of Nairobi's new strategy to choke off the flow of money to Islamists whose cross-border raids have hammered Kenya and its tourism industry. While cash from sugar smuggling may amount to only a few million dollars, experts say such sums are enough for attacks that need just a few assault rifles, transport and loyalists ready to die - such as the Garissa raid or the 2013 assault on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall that killed 67 people. |
| Clinton: race a 'deep fault line' in America | |  By Amanda Becker and Robin Respaut WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Saturday the deadly mass shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina is a violent reminder of continued institutionalized racism in the United States. "It's tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident, to believe that in today's America bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists," Clinton said. "But despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished." "Race remains a deep fault line in America," Clinton added.
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| Italian prosecutors seek trial for Bank of China over money smuggling | |  By Silvia Ognibene FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Florence have formally asked for Bank of China's Milan branch and 297 individuals, mostly Chinese living in Italy, to be tried for smuggling money and other crimes. The document, a formal request by the prosecutor seen by Reuters on Saturday, stems from an investigation called "River of Money" that started in 2008 and points to the growing influence of Chinese criminal groups in Italy's Tuscany region. The investigating prosecutors allege various crimes, including money laundering and tax evasion, according to the 170-page document signed by Florence prosecutor Giulio Monferini.
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| Disbelief, defiance in S. Carolina town once home to shooting suspect | |  By Edward McAllister and Rich McKay LEXINGTON, S.C. (Reuters) - At Dooley's Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history. Roof, a 21-year-old white man who went to high school in this Southern town near the state capital, has been charged with murdering nine African-Americans in cold blood on Wednesday at a landmark church in Charleston, about 100 miles (160 km) away. Many people in Lexington, as in towns across South Carolina, struggled to come to grips with one of their own being charged with such a heinous crime.
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| South Carolina's Haley walks a fine line after church shootings | |  Haley, now in her second term and, at 43, still the youngest governor in the nation, has garnered wide praise for her bearing after Wednesday's shooting rampage at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston that killed nine African-Americans. "South Carolinians see themselves in her." But then, the following day, Haley flashed a different side when she forcefully called for the death penalty if the suspected gunman in custody, Dylann Roof, is convicted of the murders.
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| Racist manifesto linked to Charleston shooting suspect | |  By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Dylann Roof, the suspect in Wednesday's church massacre in Charleston, appears to have written a racist manifesto, posing in photographs with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses. Many of the local landmarks shown in the photos appeared chosen to highlight Charleston's segregated past and to touch a nerve with the city's black community by singling out sites with a special importance and sensitivity in African-American history. Roof, a 21-year-old white man, was arrested on Thursday and charged with the murders of nine African-Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in downtown Charleston.
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| Obama blames gun lobby 'grip' on Congress for lax U.S. gun laws | |  By Roberta Rampton RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama blamed public apathy combined with the tight "grip" on Congress of the National Rifle Association, the powerful U.S. gun lobby, for blocking stricter gun laws. Speaking during an interview recorded on Friday, just two days after the mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina, Obama said he did not foresee any quick changes to gun laws. "Unfortunately, the grip of the NRA on Congress is extremely strong," Obama said in a clip of the interview with "WTF with Marc Maron" posted by the New York Times.
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| Police converge on NY towns where escaped prisoners said sighted | |  By Pete DeMola DANNEMORA, N.Y. (Reuters) - Heavily-armed police converged on towns in western New York state on Saturday to investigate possible sightings of two convicted murderers who escaped a maximum-security prison two weeks ago, police said. A witness saw two men who might have been the escapees walking along a railroad track in Friendship, a community of about 2,000 residents in a rural patch of Allegany County, New York State Police said in a statement. Police set up a perimeter in the area of Friendship, about 280 miles (450 km) southwest of the Clinton Correctional Facility where the escaped convicts had been serving sentences for murder, said New York State Police spokesman Beau Duffy.
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